sluggish - Story 135785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Emily's hand as she clicked the link. The pictures, so crisp and new, mocked her memories. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She slumped onto the kitchen counter, the cool granite doing little to ease the feeling of being utterly drained. She had promised herself she would call her sister, but even the thought of making small talk filled her with dread. "Maybe tomorrow," she whispered, her voice barely audible.

Emotion: sluggish

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -0.56 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.03

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sluggish. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sluggish stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sluggish emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sluggish vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`sluggish`	0.263
`dreaded`	0.258
`似乎`	0.257
`буд`	0.256
`barely`	0.254

Suppressed:

`P`	-0.384
`B`	-0.379
`భి`	-0.246
`羞`	-0.243
`ຮ`	-0.238